James Hilton
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James Hilton (1900–1954) was an English novelist and screenwriter, born in Leigh, Lancashire, the son of a schoolmaster. He was educated at The Leys School and at Christ’s College, Cambridge, and published his first novel, Catherine Herself, in 1920, while still a student. For more than a decade he worked as a journalist and reviewer while writing novels that sold modestly, until Lost Horizon (1933), which won the Hawthornden Prize, and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1934), drawn partly on his school and on his father, made him internationally famous. Lost Horizon later became the first title of the American paperback publisher Pocket Books. Hilton moved to Hollywood in the late 1930s, where several of his books were filmed, and he shared an Academy Award for the screenplay of Mrs. Miniver (1942). His later novels include Random Harvest (1941). He died in Long Beach, California, in 1954.
